I am a big money blogger, relatively speaking
I got a huge chuckle out of this tidbit from Michael Miner in the Chicago Reader;
In my column in this week’s print edition, I mistakenly said the Tribune was paying Chicago Now bloggers $5 per 10,000 hits. I called that the equivalent of carfare.
I stand corrected: the Tribune’s paying $5 per 1,000 local hits, the equivalent of — well, carfare. Bill Adee, the paper’s innovation chief, tells me Chicago Now has some 65 bloggers and last month recorded 700,000 pageviews. That works out to $3,500 split 65 ways, or about $54 a blogger for the month.
I sat down and added up all my add revenue during the course of a year, divided by 12 and concluded that I earned roughly $150 a month. Of course, Site Meter tells me my pageviews are roughly 50,000 a month.
It’s carfare. But it’s also Web hosting fare. And ISP fare. If I quit my [...]
Original post by Billy Dennis
